Farther On In The Chapter By William Golding

Farther on in the chapter when the storm finally breaks, a very menacing atmosphere is created. The tension keeps rising throughout the passage as it nears the death of Simon- though the build up of events and grotesque descriptions of the boys' actions and the environment around them. One of the ways in which Golding depicts a menacing atmosphere is through consistent and vivid descriptions; for example, when the boys have "a wave of restlessness" that made them "swaying and moving aimlessly". Here, the author is using the verb 'swaying' and the verb 'aimlessly' which are both associated with the wind to describe the boys' movement. Consequently, this is a surprisingly powerful effect given as it makes the boys' seem as if a supernatural force